10 years ago
Family and friends are rallying in support of a Salina man in need of a costly kidney transplant. Bryon Redden is from the Saline County area. He graduated from Southeast of Saline high school, and up until recently was an EMT for the city of McPherson. In September 2013, Bryon was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease. ...

10 years ago
There were some tantalizing aromas hovering in Heritage Hall at the Salina Bicentennial Center. A crowd of over 700 food enthusiasts gathered Thursday evening to learn a little about cooking at the KSAL Taste of Home Cooking School. Taste of Home’s culinary specialist Jamie Dunn demonstrated on stage step-by-step recipes for some of the season's best ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Muslim group wants Kansas political and religious leaders to repudiate views expressed by Sedgwick County Commissioner Karl Peterjohn at a county commission meeting. The Kansas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday condemned the Republican commissioner's remarks a day earlier saying he was providing "a public warning for citizens." ...

10 years ago
WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in the 2014 slaying of his 70-year-old uncle. 37-year-old Christopher Arand of rural Belvue was sentenced Thursday in the death of Larry Arand, who was beaten in the back of the head with ...

10 years ago
The heartache of a broken relationship may soon become less painful on Facebook. The world's largest social network is trying to help people who have split up with a spouse or lover, offering a new feature that spares them from constantly seeing their former partner's posts and pictures in their news feed. Facebook will begin testing the ...

10 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -  The University of Kansas student government has taken steps to impeach three top leaders after concerns were raised about their handling of racial issues. The Student Senate introduced a bill of impeachment Wednesday night against Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Student Body Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon. ...

10 years ago
Did North American Indians live in harmony with their environment or exploit it? Dr. Bonnie Sherow from Kansas State University will lead a discussion tonight at KWU with a focus on how they viewed their world. Dr. Sherow told listeners on the KSAL Morning News that long before European exploration took place, Native Americans were thriving in ...

10 years ago
Salina police are investigating an incident where a bullet was fired into an occupied home. Police say that yesterday at around 6:15PM, a white vehicle pulled up into a home on the 500 block of Washington. The residents were upstairs, heard a gun fire and when they returned to the main level of the house, they saw ...

10 years ago
Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, are considering raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products. The governing bodies in both cities will vote on proposals today that would raise the age to buy tobacco and other nicotine products from the current 18 years of age to 21-years-old. The proposals are being pushed by the group ...

10 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -  Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas has to make changes to address concerns over the state's water supply. Brownback told about 600 participants in the state's annual water conference Wednesday in Manhattan that the time has come to make changes to extend life of the underground Ogallala Aquifer and to rehabilitate silted reservoirs ...

10 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents has discussed the issue of racial tension on university campuses amid heightened conversation at the University of Kansas. The topic was brought up by University of Kansas student body president Jessie Pringle, who was threatened to be ousted along with two other officers last week for what ...